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"Quite who 'they' were or what 'they' were about is perhaps attributable to the magic mushrooms."

Bottrill grabbed a man in the house, pushing him against a wall. The man's son came downstairs and they threw the intruder out. Bottrill then moved to a home in Maidavale Crescent, Styvechale, where he shouted 'let me in, I'm being chased'. The family called the police.

While in the back garden, Bottrill picked up a garden tool and threw it at the back doors, which smashed.

Mr Watts said: "The victim was worried about this man's bizarre behaviour. He picked up a chair to try to push the defendant out.

"The victim's children, 11 and 14, were also in the house. It was then it was noticed he had a gold-handled lock knife and was brandishing it. The knife was closed, but it was obvious what it was."

Police arrived and attempted to restrain Bottrill after he threw a chair at officers. One policewoman suffered a bite to her hand and a cut head. CS gas had no effect on him.

John Price, defending, said taking magic mushrooms had not caused Bottrill to become violent before.

Recorder Peter Ross told Bottrill: "You were someone who, through long-standing connections with the drug world, will have been aware of the possible effects of so-called magic mushrooms.

"You knew they were a hallucinogenic drug and could produce symptoms of psychosis and paranoia.